Had a fantastic day exploring the ancient city of Cuenca and enjoyed having a shower after a week in the bush. Later we all went out for a dance and builder around the towns bars. Great night.
From Cuenca we left Ecuador (did take us about 4 hours of confusion on the highly disorganised border) and drove south into Peru. We spent every night on the beach or in the desert and so as there was no climbing the next day enjoyed many truck parties, the one in the desert being my very favourite. Swimming in the pacific was another highlight it being warmer than the air temperature.
We left the coast brieftly and went up to the town of Cajamarca to go bouldering. It was here that Ernie collided with another truck leaving it wing mirror less. After the owner chased us down in a taxi he demanded 3 of us stay overnight as he didnt trust us to return and pay for the damages in the morning. Me and two others were locked in a room and not able to come out till morning. In fairmess the family were very nice and treated us well. It cost us 1000 dollars just to fix a wing mirror, we were then free!
We stayed on a small farm holiday park under beautiful granite boulders for two nights and a we cleaned and put up many new routes from very easy up to V5 or 6ish. It was a great place to be. Cajamarca was also important in South Americas history and I enjoyed learning about the Spanish conquest of the Incan empire. Perhaps the highlight was the football match against the Peruvians wihch we won 7-3. I´d been dying to play for weeks and all the locals were very friendly and we had a great match of football. A good ten days, now looking forward to getting a rope tied in again down in Huaraz.
Link to photos from this section of trip.
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